Celebrate Mother’s Day with a luxurious high tea March 30, 2011 LANDMARK LONDON The grand Marylebone hotel is well-known for its splendidly lavish Sunday brunch buffet served in the vast atrium of the Winter Garden, with everything from pastries and salads to roast dishes, and a sweeping array of desserts topped off with a chocolate fountain. As an added treat for Mother’s Day, you can mix [...]
Industrial cool and botanical garden chic March 30, 2011 Going Out HOT on the heels of his downstairs bar at Polpo, Russell Norman’s new site Spuntino on Rupert Street gives a Lower East Side flavour to their rustic Italian style. The look is nineteenth century industrial Brooklyn, with wire caged filament bulbs, a pewter-topped bar, mosaic tiles and exposed brickwork. Don’t expect to see [...]
Capello warns Carroll not to waste chance March 28, 2011 ENGLAND coach Fabio Capello has warned his side’s brightest young stars, Andy Carroll and Jack Wilshere, they risk wasting their talent if their off-field behaviour fails to improve. Capello is set to unleash Carroll, who in January became the most expensive British footballer of all-time when he moved to Liverpool from Newcastle for £35m, in [...]
Boris agrees to riot summit after protests March 28, 2011 THE MAYOR of London Boris Johnson (pictured) is to hold a summit for retailers and businesses affected by the violence at Saturday’s anti-cuts protests. Johnson said in a letter to the New West End Company yesterday that he and the Metropolitan Police “want to continue… dialogue and see what lessons can be learned”. Retailers including [...]
Centre Point tower sold March 24, 2011 NEW PROPERTY company Almacantar could turn some floors of the Centre Point tower into luxury flats, after buying the tower out of administration. Almacantar, set up last year by former Land Securities executive Mike Hussey, has exchanged contracts on the Grade II-listed tower near Tottenham Court Road underground station. The firm did not say how [...]
Sri Lanka not home and dry against Three Lions March 24, 2011 SRI LANKA vs ENGLAND TOMORROW – 9.00 AM SKY SPORTS ENGLAND’S World Cup story has taken more twists and turns than a Bollywood classic and in spite of themselves – just as in all good movies – the protagonists of this tale still have the chance of a happy ending. If the Three Lions are [...]
BORIS SEEKS THE NEXT BLANKFEIN IN LONDON’S POOREST POSTCODES March 24, 2011 ANY City recruiters out there with a nose for talent will be interested to hear about the latest initiative from Boris Johnson’s Fund for London – a scheme to help disadvantaged young Londoners have a better shot at the UK jobs market. Young London Working provides a central employment hub to connect jobless young people [...]
World Cup starts at last March 22, 2011 AT LONG long last after 42 generally one-sided and predictable matches the World Cup can officially begin with the top eight teams in the world having made it through to the last eight. The group stages have been a complete waste of time and by maintaining such a long-winded format the latter stages have potentially [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING March 16, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES BANKS SERVED LIBOR SUBPOENAS Regulators probing alleged manipulation of a key interbank lending rate have focused their demands for information and interviews on five global banks, according to people familiar with the investigation. UBS, Bank of America, Citigroup and Barclays have received subpoenas from US regulators probing the setting of the London interbank [...]
A moratorium on building is certain to choke growth March 16, 2011 IF you are ever tempted to complain that London is too crowded, just reflect that it would be much worse if it were the opposite – deserted. One of the best indicators of how well a city is doing is its population. People move to thriving cities, and leave struggling ones. So many people have [...]